Apr

Free Things Abound + 40 Minutes Still Showtime

Free Bacchanal sunglasses, tshirts, condoms, shotglasses, keychains and whistles will be handed out on the Steps at 5:30. (uh, your wedge of space on the Steps) while you’re there, the show starts in 40 minutes.

Update, 5:45: Hustle, they’re almost out out of free miscellany!

Update, 5:55: There are plainclothes Public Safety out, so best to get creative with your drinking outdoors. And if you’re not outside now, go! Below, the scene 5 minutes to showtime.

Update, 6:45: It has begun! Send pictures, overheards, and other Bacchanal tidbits to [email protected]

I will never get why they push our drunken fun out into the dangerous city. Even places like Notre Dame realize that it is just safer to "let" kids have their fun on a safe campus with help 30 secs away.

of montreal is pretty huge. however, a concert sans inebriants is like a car without gas. everything about it looks right, but it's no matter cos it ain't goin nowhere. especially with a psychedelic freakout band like of montreal.

"i want to go to a dorm party! play some beer pong!" was pretty hilarious though.

you serious? Of Montreal is HUGE - I'm shocked that Columbia was able to get them. And if they had to blow their entire budget just on getting them, well, it was worth sitting through two other no-name opening acts just to hear them.

I mean, tickets for their shows are probably, what, $50? More? And you'd still need a (probably awful) opener anyway. So you can't really complain about last night.

... rappers every year, can we actually get the really famous ones? Eminem is coming out with a new album, maybe he'll want to grace us next year?John Mayer has been in NYC or NJ pretty much every fuckin week for the last few months. Even Green Day and Muse. Just something that more people than random hipsters know of.